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Condition: beautiful exemplar with minimally scuffed corners and minimally damaged top edge

coloured artistic card – Houses of Parliament with Big Ben, pedestrians, statue and lanterns

Address: Canon Row, London SW1A 2

Price: 6.00 €
(exempt from VAT acc. to § 19 UStG)

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Year: ca. 1910

Postal state: postally unused

Inscription front: Houses of Parliament. Charles F. Flower, Oilette

Inscription back: Tuck's Post Card, Carte Postale, By Appointment, The Houses of Parliament are a most imposing pile of buildings viewed from the river. On their site once stood the ancient Royal Palace of Edward the Confessor, which however was considerably altered and rebuilt by William Rufus and Stephen and Henry VIII. Parts of these buildings were destroyed during the Great Fire of 1666, and the New Palace of Westminster was erected by Sir Charles Barry at a cost of £3,000,000 in 1840. (For Address Only, R&S T, Raphael House, Trade Mark, Copyright London, Printed in England, The Houses of Parliament. R&T S Raphael Tuck & Sons' Oilette Postcard No. 7898, Art Publishers to Their Majesties the King & Queen.

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